Prose, essays, reviews, interviews & poetry with a focus on food:

1. Here’s the Cover For Lucky Peach #4: American Food (EATER)
2. When The Queso Dripped Like Honey (GILT TASTE)
3. Traci des Jardins on Her Two Cookbook Collections: The Antique & the Modern (EATER)
4. The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields & the Dinner Table (WASHINGTON POST)
5. Making Tortillas with the Garlic Cutters (GILT TASTE)
6. A New Era of Delicacies (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
7. I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter (NEW YORK TIMES)
8. Frank Talk: Pairing Wine with Hot Dogs (CNN)
9. John T. Edge on His New Cookbook and Rediscovering American Cuisine (EATER)
10. My Life In Food: Wolfgang Puck (INDEPENDENT)
11. KFC Releases Free Col. Sanders Autobiography/Cookbook on Facebook (NEWS TRACK INDIA)
12. A Hands-On Approach to Summer Eating  (WALL STREET JOURNAL)

Guilty Pleasures…

1. At a Mob Trial, Testimony Focuses on the Knife and Fork (NY TIMES)
2. Female inmates pen prison cookbook (DALLAS NEWS)
3. ‘Pssst…want to buy a tomato?’: Green fingered thieves target vegetable delivery trucks as price of food soars (DAILY MAIL)
4. Waiter stole from Gordon Ramsay’s favourite Thai restaurant Nahm-Jim (THE COURIER)
5. Parents of boy who was served booze at Applebee’s now suing; suit says tot was ‘hungover’ for days (NY DAILY NEWS)
6. Again? Another child served booze — 4-year old given cocktail at Chilis (BABBLE)
7. Iraq may ditch $57 million of food ration cooking oil (REUTERS)
8. Kidnappers want $4m for restaurant owner (TRINIDAD EXPRESS)
9. Col. Sanders Death Threat: FBI Files Reveal 1974 Investigation (HUFFINGTON POST)
10. Perth chef blames curried soup for drink drive charge (BBC NEWS)

Video clips featuring culinary subject matter: your favorite chefs, the latest restaurant openings, food product releases and more!

1. Community Episode Features KFC’s Col. Sanders (NBC / HULU)
2. Martha Stewart & Johnny Knoxville Carve Pumpkins (PEREZ HILTON)
3. Chef Patti Jackson Makes Grano Arso with Duck Ragout (FOOD ARTS)
4. Clips from Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escapes (BBC)
5. Foraging: It’s What’s for Dinner (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
6. Marketing Chipotle Burritos Is Easy: “It’s Like Selling Puppies” (FAST COMPANY)
7. My Pepper Heart (EAT PES)
8. Farmer John: Mission Accomplished (ADS OF THE WORLD)
9. Interview with Rene Redzepi from Copenhagen restaurant Noma (GOURMET TRAVELER)
10. Starbucks of the Future (USA TODAY)

A bucket full:

1. No money for a bronze Col. Sanders statue? No problem, says PETA: Make it out of chicken feces (LA TIMES)
2. Homeless scavenge for food and water after earthquake in Haiti (TIMES ONLINE)
3. World Food Programme asks bloggers to help with earthquake relief for Haiti (AMERICAN CHRONICLE)
4. NBC’s Post-Jaypocalyptic Primetime Includes Fieri’s Minute to Win It (TIME)
5. Thailand’s Damnoen Saduak floating market – SLIDE SHOW (CNN)
   
6. Preview online for Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution – VIDEO (TV.COM)
7. Do Cell Phones Belong on Dinner Tables? (GRUB STREET)
8. Brooklyn mobster gives judge food for thought (NY POST)
9. Exotic Tastes of the Big Island (NY TIMES)
10. Tavern’s Treasures Sold – SLIDE SHOW (NRN)
11. Menu Prices & the Economic Recovery (FAST CASUAL)
12. NYC’s Yonah Schimmel’s Celebrates Its 100th Birthday (VILLAGE VOICE)